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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-1-4
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Aberrant accumulation of extensively phosphorylated heavy (high molecular weight) neurofilament (NFH) and neurodegeneration are features of hereditary canine spinal muscular atrophy (HCSMA), an animal model of human motor neuron disease. In this study, the canine NFH gene was mapped, cloned, and sequenced, and electrospray/mass spectrometry was used to evaluate the phosphorylation state of NFH protein from normal dogs and dogs with HCSMA. The canine NFH gene was localized to a region on canine chromosome 26 that corresponds to human NFH on chromosome 22q. The predicted length of the canine NFH protein is 1135 amino acids, and it shares an 80.3% identity with human NFH and >74.6% with murine NFH proteins. Direct sequencing of NFH cDNA from HCSMA dogs revealed no mutations, although cDNA sequence and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis indicates that there are at least three canine NFH alleles, differing in the position and number (61 or 62) of Lys-Ser-Proline (KSP) motifs. The two longest alleles (L1 and L2), each with 62 KSP repeats, contain an additional 24-base insert and were observed in both normal and HCSMA dogs. However, the shorter allele (the C allele), with 61 KSP sites and lacking the 24-base insertion, was absent in dogs with HCSMA. Mass spectrometry data indicated that almost all of the NFH KSP phosphorylation sites were occupied. No new or extra sites were identified in native NFH purified from the HCSMA dogs. The predominance of the two longest NFH alleles and the additional KSP phosphorylation sites they confer probably account for the presence of extensively phosphorylated NFs detected immunohistochemically in dogs with HCSMA.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0021-9975
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
132
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
33-50
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Dog Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Dogs, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Muscular Atrophy, Spinal, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Neurofilament Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:15629478-Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Allelic variants of the canine heavy neurofilament (NFH) subunit and extensive phosphorylation in dogs with motor neuron disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.